Operating Systems

A lot like arch linux, uses busybox, musl, and openrc by default extremely lightweight great for low resource machines. also has a installer a lot like openbsds, really a great mix between arch and openbsd.

A lot like FreeBSD but with more of a effort towards correct code, security on servers, and the Unix philosphy, it's extremely hard to get working on a desktop and drivers are lacking, but if it works go for it, it's atleast as good as FreeBSD in most cases

A fork one of the most versatile linux distributions around. it doesn't have a graphical user enviroment by default, however it is easy to install one, and it being a barebones system allows you to customize it way beyond most other distros. not to mention, the AUR allows you to find basically anything you can dream of in terms of software. it has a more difficult learning curve, but is well rounded, without systemd, it also has releases with desktop enviroments preinstalled.

Another barebones and minimal linux distribution like Arch. there is a musl version which is way lighter weight than glibc, also uses the runit init system which is way faster.

A Utilitarian operating system from the same group who created Unix, in a lot of ways it is essentially Unix2, it focuses on simplicity and reusablity like original Unix but pushes it into a graphical era. forked later with additional development including but not limited to more hardware support, nes/snes/gb/gbc/md emulators, the Constitution of the United States, The Manifesto of the Commmunist Party, and a whole lot more, just generally the updated version of Plan9, a lot of the dev's worked on the original aswell.

Shells

The remake of bash in toybox lightweight and fast, lacking features like tab completion and colors, so is essentially dash for bash scripts at this point.

Debian Almquist SHell is the Debian port of ash, it's a super lightweight shell that's great for script execution, if on artix, use dash-static-musl from the aur, i highly recommend you link this to /bin/sh.

OpenBSD Korn Shell, one of the best shells on unix, extremely lightweight, version of it generally doesn't matter oksh, loksh, mksh, pdksh, but when on artix i recommend using the mksh-static from the AUR. recommend using it as your user shell with dash as /bin/sh, how to change your user shell. you need to set your ENV var to be able to config your .shrc.

plan9 shell, and a extended fork.

Terminal Software

Runs commands as another user, is super lightweight, great for single user pcs. also, Conf Doas.

A text editor inspired by Vi, Vim, and plan9 Sam, based around Structural Expressions.

A text editor essentially GNU notepad.

A multiplexer inspired by DWM

a terminal matrix client.

script i made to replace xdg-open.

script i made to quickly open files.

posix shell script prompt thats easy to fork and implement into any shell.

A suckless RSS feed reader

A simple RSS feed reader.

A lynx like Web browser.

Yay is a AUR helper, also note, you need sudo or, Yay with Doas

A file manager.

simple implementation of top, really nice.

A process/task manager, really low resource and simple.

A simple system info Utility, inspired by screenfetch.

Binary VI, VI like hex editor.

A notification bubble without a daemon can be piped into from tiramisu

Option selection, think cli dmenu.

A notification daemon that can be piped into whatever you please.

X Software

Suckless terminal, light weight, scales poorly, but highly modable, great for hobbists.

simple menu for launching applications etc.

Suckless X Image Viewer

Image Viewer.

Document Viewer, with modules for, cb(r/z), pdf, epub, djvu, and more.

PDF/EPUB/CBZ Reader

Web browser, A fork of FireFox focused around privacy

Web browser, De-botneted Chromium

Suckless Web Browser

MPV is video and audio player forked from mplayer

KDE Webcam application.

GNU Image Manipulation Program, essentially GNU Photoshop

Gui git, sucks in some ways, great in others.

Peak File Archival Performance.

IDE, De-microsofted, better than anything else but is electron.

XFCE ImgBurn, lightweight disc burning application

Quickmedia is a native, keyboard controlled, app for youtube, 4chan, soundcloud, matrix, and more.

KDE Calculator.

KDE Character Select.

Game launcher, steam/playnite alternative, great emulator, and wine support

Emulators

Dos Emulator, can be ran in your Terminal and other special things, sometimes useful.

DosBox but actually accurate, can run windows 98 and basically any games.

Windows compatiblity layer, has backports from proton, and other fixes by GE.

Android in a box, abusing the fact android uses Linux

MacOS compatiblity layer.

Commodore Emulation.

Really accurate and featured PSP emulator.

The best PS2 emulator, not great but in a lot of cases the only option.

A more minimal PS2 emulator, not enough games work currently.

The only PS3 Emulator.

The best and most open DS emulator.

Decently Accurate but not perfect, and insanely featured GCN/WII emulator.

N64 emulator, minimal, supports plugins.

A accurate but featured graphics plugin for N64 emulators, use with Mupen64Plus.

Sega saturn emulator.

Dreamcast emulator

16bit Atari emulator.

8bit Atari emulator.

Multisystem emulator, supports a ton of consoles while also being minimal it includes a ps1, nes, gb, gbc, gba, a bsnes based snes emulator, and more.